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John MacWhirter R.A., H.R.S.A., R.I., R.E. 1839-1911
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- John MacWhirter R.A., H.R.S.A., R.I., R.E.
- AN ALBUM CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY-TWO SKETCHES OF BRITISH RURAL SCENES, A SELF PORTRAT SKETCHING, STUDIES OF TREES AND ANIMALS AND COASTAL SCENES
- watercolour, pencil, pen and ink
- smallest 4 1/2 by 5 1/2 cm. ; 1 3/4 by 2 1/4 in., largest 15 1/2 by 22 1/2 cm. ; 6 by 9 in.
Provenance
Mrs MacWhirter, Hampstead:
Given to Helen Baird by Miss Bristowe
Catalogue Note
John MacWhirter's sensitive depiction of the British landscape is here demonstrated in a large album of finely detailed watercolours and pen and ink drawings. From charming studies of women hoeing in the fields to atmospheric architectural studies of an ancient village church emerging from the morning haze, MacWhirter captured the essence of English rural calm. Perhaps the most notable among the figure studies is the self portrait of the artist sketching on the slopes of some snowy mountain and a little farm girl standing at the sunlit doorway of a barn. Other striking sketches include views of lonely ruins and baronial castles in MacWhirter's homeland of Scotland and a series of delicate studies of trees and branches against the sky.